The Songfactors' Choice: Best Lovesongs and Ballads

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WELCOME TO THE SONGFACTORS' CHOICE: TOP TEN LOVE SONGS and BALLADS of ALL TIME

*ALL MEMBERS OF SONGFACTS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE * Join us, and share your knowledge and your love of the thing that keeps SONGFACTS the community we all know and love, MUSIC ! The basic guidelines are simple....

* The Songfactors' Music of Choice is decided by your nominations and votes. For each edition we'll ask that you nominate 1 OR 2 selections that meet the guidelines for that edition.

* With each nomination, we ask that you give us a review, a few thoughts or just a description of how your selection makes you feel. No one is being graded on their writing here. What we want is for you to share your knowledge and feelings about the music you love.

* Each edition will run about 3 weeks or so. At the end of that time, we'll ask you to vote, and you know how that works! These lists will number 5, so we'll ask that you compile your list of 5 choices for the final Songfactor's Music of Choice. We will tally them, just like The Songfactors' Choice Top Ten, 1 through 5. At the close of voting, we will have our Songfactors' Music of Choice.

* Be as creative with this as you'd like. We want to encourage an exchange of thoughts, so this will be a place to learn about and enjoy the nominations, as well as the final choices. The guidelines will change with each edition.

..... So, here we go .....

THE SONGFACTORS' CHOICE: Top Ten Love Songs and Ballads of All Time

**NOTE: After much (stress much) discussion we went with songs this time, and this theme is easy and different. Everybody has a couple of favorite love songs, the ones that get to you everytime you hear them. Easy (or hard) enough to choose a list of ten, so we're going with a Top Ten this time. Sound good? Good.

The original is by Charles Aznavour, in English (he and Herbert Kretzmer are the authors). But I prefer this version. ItÂ´s just so beautiful and so simple, the way he explains what she means to him...

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For Lindsey from Stevie, her last ditch attempt at hope for their relationship, after which he slapped her with "Go Your Own Way."

In my personal experience, this song was parallel to my love life. I was dating someone in my senior year, and then one day he decided to go back to his old girlfriend, and I didn't find out until the deed was done. It hurt - a lot So the song's message of "don't say that she loves you, baby I don't wanna know." And "Time cast a spell on you that you won't forgoet me" were all very in-the-moment for me.

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Everybody has a couple of favorite love songs, the ones that get to you everytime you hear them. Easy (or hard) enough to choose a list of ten, so we're going with a Top Ten this time. Sound good? Good.